 About 6.9% of the rural and 18.5% of the urban population have access to drinking water.The 2007 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 238,966, of whom 120,521 were men and 118,445 were women; 9,118 or 3.82% of its population were urban dwellers.The majority of the inhabitants said they were Muslim, with 97.35% of the population reporting they observed this belief, while 2.35% of the population practised Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity.